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Kendra Buresch, senior research assistant, touches Marco Polo, an octopus that is checking out the top of the tank at the Marine Biological Lab. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Is octopus experimentation ethical?

Matthew Rozsa
Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Astronomers found a distant radio burst

Matthew Rozsa
This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Young woman with her face distorted (Getty Images/PeopleImages)

How to tell if you've been triggered

Matthew Rozsa
Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illness reaches U.S. soil

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Golden Bachelor (ABC/Craig Sjodin)

"The Golden Bachelor's" sweet sadness

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Jimmy Buffett arrives at the Opening Night of The Jimmy Buffett Musical "Escape To Margaritaville" on Broadway at The Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2018 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Meet a newly discovered margarita snail

Matthew Rozsa
Two young boys sit in a basement late at night on a weekend watching a horror flick. (Getty Images/RichVintage)

Horror is good for your mind: Experts

Matthew Rozsa
Maxar overview satellite imagery shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on January 6, 2022, before the eruption on January 14th , 2022 in Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Islands, Tonga. (Maxar via Getty Images)

Are volcanoes causing climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

Ashley Balzer
A protester holds up a placard demanding research into Long Covid-19 during the demonstration. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Another report minimizes long COVID risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pregnant woman at her doctor appointment prenatal care (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

The silent pain crisis afflicting women

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Woman with stomach pain (Getty Images/martin-dm)

Rare Ozempic side effects emerging

Matthew Rozsa
Post Apocalyptic Urban Landscape (Getty Images/Bulgac)

Human extinction as a real possibility

Émile P. Torres
The Elephant in the cave (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supercomputer under the zoo vanishes

Rae Hodge
Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Should hospitals be bringing back masks?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Toilet and toilet paper holder in field of dandelions (Getty Images/Hiroshi Higuchi)

What we can learn from the "poop shelf"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Senior Japanese man on tropical beach, Ikema Island of Miyako Islands, Okinawa, Japan (Getty Images/Ippei Naoi)

Are blue zones real or a health grift?

Philip Finkelstein
Holding a large mushroom (Photo courtesy of MycoMeditations)

How psychedelic retreats can help heal

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Senior man doing a jigsaw puzzle (Getty Images/LightFieldStudios)

What biomarkers say about Alzheimer's

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Kim Nguyen, pharmacist, prepares to give a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at CVS, 12550 Louetta Rd., Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Hiccups reported in COVID vax rollout

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

AI could help us find life on Mars

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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